Internet Links

Friends Pages

• Mark Curtis and Katherine Howlin.
• Jorgi's World - Site of George Zamroz.
• Brad "Blunatic" Olds. Site moved, elsewhere...
• Belinda Ullucci's photo album.
• "Missing Jigsaw Piece", Sarah's MySpace page.
• Kim and Nancy, Flickr photo collection.
• Gatorz Racing, for stories on Ian McLean.
• Donkers Wunschbox, buy culinary delights and fine gifts, by Jenny Donker.

Computer-Technical Links

BSD

• NetBSD (and Australian mirror), the best OS out there.
• NetBSD community wiki.
• Darwin source code.
• OpenDarwin, shutting down as of 2006-07-25.
• Dæmon News, for all news BSD.
• BSDFreak, for more news BSD.
• Tutorial on FreeBSD (and NetBSD) kernel debugging.
• B.U.G.S. - BSD Users Group of Sydney.
• hubertf's NetBSD Blog.

BSD Goodies

• NetBSD store at CafePress.com.
• BSDFreak store at CafePress.com.
• Beastie stuff available at Marshall Kirk McKusick's site.
• NetBSD Spreadshirt.net Store.

Apple News and Rumours

• MacOS Rumors, they're sometimes right.
• Mac Rumors, more traffic, less accuracy, IMHO.
• AppleInsider.
• Think Secret.

UNIX

• SysAdminDay, for all of us System Administrators.
• Dave's UNIX/Solaris Tips Page, bunch of handy general UNIX hints and hints for some commercial UNICes.
• UNIX History timeline, maintained by Éric Lévénez.
• Interaction Australasia, IBM Users Group.

Linux

• Kernel Links.
• LXR - Linux kernel source browser.

TSM Links

• ADSM.org. Tivoli Storage Manager public support site.
• ADSM/TSM Quick Facts. ADSM/TSM FAQ as compiled by Richard Sims.
• TSM Wiki.

Industry and Technology News

• The Register. Another great news site.
• Slashdot. What more need be said?
• Ars Technica. Thorough articles on new technology.

Software/Source Archives

• SourceForge.
• GNU.org.
• Savannah aka nongnu.org.

Standards

• Open Group Technical Standards.
• www.unix.org, the home of the Single UNIX Specification.
• JTC1/SC22/WG14 - C - C99 "WG14-N1124", "ISO/IEC 9899:1999" draft standard.
• t10.org, home of the SCSI standards.
• t11.org, home of the Fibre Channel (FC), Storage (Network) Management (SM), High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI), Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI) and Single-Byte Command Code Sets Connection (SBCON) standards.
• cplusplus.com not really a "Standard", but a growing reference and tutorial collection.

Quick Reference Cards

• Rosetta Stone.
• Latex cheat sheet.
• GNUplot Quick Reference (pdf).
• MediaWiki Reference Card.
• awk Reference (pdf).

Aussie Software Mirrors

• Exetel Mirror.
• Planet Mirror.
• Aarnet.
• Pacific Internet.
• ISP.

Aussie Hardware Markets and Stores

• PLE.
• MSY not bad, but renowned worst website.
• staticICE to compare online Australian store prices.
• Shopbot more Aussie store price comparisons.
• Booko to compare book prices.
• Computer Fairs Australia.
• Computer Fairs NSW.
• Aus PC-Market.
• elx.com.au.
• Zytech.
• Eyo.
• DealExtreme. Not Aussie, but free shipping.

Cases

• CoolPC.
• PC Case Gear.
• SilverStone.

Popular Internet Search Engines

• Google - ubiquitous.
• Dogpile - metasearch engine combining the results of many popular search engines.
• Gigablast, fairly new, shows some promise.
• AlltheWeb (uses Yahoo index).
• AltaVista, the oldest of them all. And now uses the Yahoo index.
• Yahoo.
• Ask Jeeves (uses Teoma engine).
• Internet Archive. Ok, not a search engine, but you get the idea.
• Excite. Uses Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.
• KartOO. Too much flash for my liking.
• Cuil. New, launched by ex-googlers, but seems pretty poor.
• MSN Search.

Pastebins

• rafb.net
• pastebin.com
• pastebin.ca
• rifers.org

Programmer Fonts

• Proggy Programming Fonts.
• Inconsolata.
• ProFont.

Electronics

• Digi-key electronic component shipping to Australia.

Miscellaneous

• Open Graphics Project to develop graphics cards with "fully published specs and open source drivers".
• "Olson" tzdata and tzcode source files for time zone and daylight saving information, and the source code to process the files.
• Oz Broadband Speed Test.
• PCIDatabase.com PCI Vendor and Device Lists.
• The Hacker FAQ maintained by Peter Seebach.
• FSF - Cards - list of Free Software Foundation endorsed wireless cards.
• Duplicity backup software utilising librsync.
• STM bags.

Photography

• Steve's Digicams. Good reviews on digital cameras.
• Canon EOS Beginners’ FAQ.
• Hubble gallery.

Articles

• ACM Queue: Interview with Jim Grey. Interesting article on the future of storage, distributing large data sets, and the concept that a disk is becoming more of a sequential access device rather than a random access device.
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. 12 tests to check the quality of a software development team.
• The IEEE 754 Floating Point Standard. Short article about why IEEE 754 is bad. See here for articles on the advantages of IEEE 754.
• Xen and the Art of System Administration presentation.
• Neutrinos vs. Sun Scoreboard, or why Sun needs ECC to fix E-cache parity errors.
• Bikeshed painting in the FreeBSD forums.
• A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection by Peter Gutmann.
• Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?, article published in USENIX.
• Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population, published by Google engineers.

Comics and Humour

• The Far Side.
• Dilbert.
• UserFriendly.
• xkcd.
• Garfield.
• The Project Cartoon - How Projects Really Work (version 2.0).
• 26b/6.
• 1.00 FTE - Impressions of a corporate life.
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

Bargain Stores

General

• Zazz.
• DealsDirect.

Books

• Book Depository.
• Booko.

Batteries

• MDBattery for various computer, hobby and industrial batteries.

Online Learning & Puzzles

Maths

• Khan Academy.

Maths & Computing

• Project Euler.

Sport

• TennisOne magazine site. Some good online free info.
• Racquet Research. Head-light and heavy is good.
• stringforum.net, all about string.
• Tennis Wollongong.
• Wiseman Park Tennis Club.
• Sydney Tennis Courts.
• Illawarra Alpine Club.

Aussie Wines

• Laughing Jack Wines.
• Lillypilly Wines.
• Warburn Estate.
• Jackswine.

Investing

• Morningstar.

Miscellaneous

• alt.usage.english web site, with much information on this increasingly butchered language.
• Omniglot - Language, pronounciation, writing and font links for most languages.
• The 'Ocracy - local Wollongong theater group.
• Edible Blooms - for chocolate flowers!
• Swarovski Crystal.
• lspace.org, for all things Diskworld and Terry Pratchet.